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It's
not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
-Calvin & Hobbes
Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you have been up to.
-Anonymous
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
-Aristotle
Once you are Real you can't become Unreal again. It lasts for always.
-The Velveteen Rabbit
We are the people our mothers warned us about.
-Anonymous
If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
-Anonymous
In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and
in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I
do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay
for my pleasure if it is necessary.
-Louisa May Alcott
Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.
-Anonymous
Geeks are the most interesting people.
-Elijah Wood
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's
deep enough. What do you want; an adorable pancreas?
-Jean Kerr
A true friend stabs you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
-Jane Austin
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
-Anonymous
The road to Hell is paved with good obsessions.
-Keith Neilson
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
-Abraham Lincoln
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while, you see the
world with new eyes.
-Dame Iris Murdoch
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than one's self
is real.
-Dame Iris Murdoch
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
-Mignon McLaughlin
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to
think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right
place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-Dorothy Nevill
The trouble with practical jokes is that they get elected.
-Anonymous
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his
pictures.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
-William Blake
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
-Socrates
You don't get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can
only decide how you're going to live. Now.
-Joan Baez
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably
precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence
never to practice either of them.
-Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you
have ceased to live.
-Mark Twain
I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care
to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be
any worse.
-Mark Twain
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
-Mark Twain
On the Bible - It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some
clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a
wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
-Mark Twain
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that
there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.
-Mark Twain
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great
ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-Winston Churchill
I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth
about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that
this is taking an unfair advantage.
-Mark Twain
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations
involving a sledgehammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be
pretty bad.
-Dave Barry
Death cannot kill what never dies.
-William Penn
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
-Edgar Allen Poe
Ah! Say you don't agree with me. When people agree with me, I always
feel that I must be wrong.
-Oscar Wilde
MRS ALLONBY They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to
Paris.
LADY HUNSTANTON Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?
LORD ILLINGWORTH Oh, they go to America.
-Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be
good than to be ugly.
-Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people up into good and bad. People are either
charming or tedious.
-Oscar Wilde
As he lay on his deathbed in Paris:
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
-Oscar Wilde
There is no sin except stupidity.
-Oscar Wilde
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
-Phyllis Diller
I am not arguing with you. I am telling you.
-James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut
up the insane we should run out of building materials.
-Mark Twain
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how
little we think of the other person.
-Mark Twain
Always do right. That will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
-Mark Twain
Mark Twain and I are in the same position. We have to put things in such a way
as to make people, who would otherwise hang us, believe that we are joking.
-George Bernard Shaw
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless,
so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven,
though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
-George Bernard Shaw
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
-George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly
to a political career.
-George Bernard Shaw
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Love your enemies. It will make them crazy.
-Anonymous
I didn't notice I was a woman. I regard myself as the Prime Minister.
-Margaret Thatcher
A girl can wait for the right man to come along; but in the meantime that still
doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
-Cher
If only God would give me one clear sign! Like making a huge deposit in my
name at a Swiss bank.
-Woody Allen
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
-Anonymous
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance.
-Phyllis Diller
Artists can colour the sky red because they know it's really blue. Those
of us who aren't artists must colour things the way they really are or people
might think we're stupid.
-Jules Feiffer
The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously.
-Hubert Humphrey
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-Helen Giangregario
One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.
-Heinrich Heine
In my long and colourful career, one thing stands out: I have been
misunderstood.
-Mae West
I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
-Shelley Winters
I always wear slacks because of the brambles and maybe the snakes.
-Katharine Hepburn
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
-Katharine Hepburn
A sharp tongue is the only edged instrument that grows keener with constant use.
-Washington Irving
We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.
-Mark Twain
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands
explained.
-Mark Twain
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
-Jane Wagner
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
-Mae West
I rely on my personality for birth control.
-Liz Winston
If we men married the women we deserve, we should have a very bad time of it.
-Oscar Wilde
There have been tyrants and murderers and, for a time they can seem invincible,
but in the end, they always fall. Think of this always.
-Mahatma Gandhi
I survived because I was tougher than everyone else.
-Bette Davis
It is time to stop denying the inner bitch in ourselves. Stop apologizing
for her. Set her free.
-Elizabeth Hilts
Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
-Fran Lebowitz
What I wanted to be when I grew up was in charge.
-Wilma Vaught
Don't start dating someone just because you are too lazy to commit suicide.
-Judy Tenuta
It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one
person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three
husbands would do it.
-Clare Boothe
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-Delores Ibarruri
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
-Florynce Kennedy
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to
the dark place it leads.
-Erica Jong
As she stood before the firing squad:
Life is an illusion.
-Mata Hari